University of Padua

The University of Padua is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy, founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna who had previously settled in Vicenza, which makes it the second-oldest university in Italy and the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. It was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe, known for the rigor of its Aristotelian logic and science, and it is associated with figures such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Andreas Vesalius and Galileo Galilei. It has 32 departments and eight schools, belongs to the Coimbra Group and had about 72,000 students in 2021. In this atlas it is the institution where the mathematician Giovanni Poleni held the chairs of astronomy, physics and mathematics.